Janice Holland:  

In 1980 I moved from Chicago to the Los Angeles area with my soon to be husband, a Neurologist from Northwestern University. Five years later we divorced. I decided to put my energies into a career and not to sublimate my personality or vicariously live through my spouse's accomplishment. In 1988 I married my late-husband of 29 years and we lived in Venice and then moved two miles away to the West Los Angeles area. This is where we raised our two sons. Our Mar Vista community is unique in West Los Angeles, People know their neighbors, they walk their dogs and stroll their babies. It is really a neighborhood with sidewalks and a local park. The location is also fabulous because we are only about ten minutes from the Santa Monica, Venice and Marina Del Rey (now known as Silicon Beach) and only five to ten minutes from Beverly Hills and UCLA. A great place to live with no fires, no mudslides and only the occasional earthquake! I was recently widowed but decided to stay in our home surrounded by my two sons, the best friends on the planet, and everything that is lovely and familiar! Love those Pacific Breezes! Love those Amber Maples on our cul-de-sac that are deciduous and give me a memory of the Mid-West as they go through the four seasons. I also love my Palm Trees! I have been in the Hard Money Equity Lending industry most of the 35 years that I have been licensed. I worked for the two major Lenders at that time and eventually left the industry after the big Northridge Earthquake to become a co-founder of SCI Real Estate Investments which became one of the largest 1031 Real Estate Based Exchange companies in the U.S. Like everyone else 2008 was a killer. I have so many loyal lenders and investors that I decided to downsize and work from home funding for a developer. So far, we h...Expand for more